Manufacturer Recalls Hollow Point Bullets That Fail To Explode Inside Targets

Steel Hawk Inc. is offering a full refund to customers who bought the non-flesh-shredding bullets.

00:00:00.000,00:00:03.000 Captions by www.SubPLY.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00:00:06.470,00:00:09.970 The nation's leading manufacturer of ammunitions Steel Hawk Incorporated 00:00:10.100,00:00:13.700 announced a massive recall today of jacketed hollow-point bullets 00:00:14.110,00:00:17.110 which may not properly shred the internal organs of victims. 00:00:17.420,00:00:20.190 When functioning normally the tip of a hollow-point bullet 00:00:20.290,00:00:23.490 shatters into fragments then cuts a wide and jagged path 00:00:23.590,00:00:25.530 through the tissue and bone of its target, 00:00:25.630,00:00:29.070 but due to a factory error nearly 100,000 bullets 00:00:29.160,00:00:31.300 with solid points were shipped to retail stores 00:00:31.400,00:00:34.670 resulting in a greatly reduced capability to explode flesh. 00:00:34.770,00:00:38.970 Steel Hawk CEO John Cullen announced the recall at a press conference this morning. 00:00:39.070,00:00:42.870 At Steel Hawk nothing is more important to us than the complete satisfaction 00:00:43.180,00:00:46.580 of our customers when they maim or kill. Some of these defective bullets 00:00:46.680,00:00:51.320 can leave an exit wound as small as a plum. That is unacceptable. 00:00:51.620,00:00:53.990 According to the information released by Steel Hawk 00:00:54.290,00:00:56.860 the first notice about the defective bullets came from a man 00:00:56.960,00:00:59.930 who shot and killed his brother during an altercation at a county fair 00:01:00.230,00:01:02.630 and was disappointed that the victim's face remained 00:01:02.730,00:01:05.700 quote more or less intact. Frank Ehrman was among 00:01:06.040,00:01:08.570 the hundreds of other dissatisfied customers. 00:01:08.670,00:01:10.840 You know you spend good money for a hollow point bullet 00:01:10.940,00:01:13.910 you expect it to explode the head in a geyser of blood and brains. 00:01:14.010,00:01:15.140 You know if I wanted to kill someone 00:01:15.440,00:01:17.810 without destroying the body I'd use a hammer. 00:01:17.910,00:01:20.250 To address complaints like these the company is also offering 00:01:20.350,00:01:23.520 discount coupons for its newest product inferno bullets 00:01:23.850,00:01:26.820 bullets which start a small fire inside of someone when you shoot them. 00:01:27.120,00:01:29.890 We understand that when our customers shoot a man 00:01:30.190,00:01:33.830 they want to see his liquified organs pour out of every hole in his body. 00:01:34.130,00:01:36.500 Give us another chance we'll give you the 00:01:36.600,00:01:38.770 lung-shreddingest bullet on the market. 00:01:39.070,00:01:41.410 Still the effort might not be enough for many customers. 00:01:41.740,00:01:43.670 Those people over at Steel Hawk ought to be shot in the face 00:01:44.000,00:01:45.130 in front of their families. 00:01:45.240,00:01:48.080 Many gun owners have said the recall has been so frustrating 00:01:48.180,00:01:51.350 they will no longer use bullets returning to more low tech methods 00:01:51.440,00:01:55.010 like beating victims with spiked clubs or dragging them behind their cars. 00:01:55.120,00:01:59.120 Moving on Congress announced today the long debated Darfur aid package 00:01:59.420,00:02:01.990 will be used for a Darfur memorial instead.